Senior Crown prosecutor Nanette Rogers strikes on to questions on what accused killer Erin Patterson instructed docs after the meat Wellington lunch.
Rogers has requested Patterson a few dialog she had with Dr Laura Muldoon, a toxicologist at Monash Well being, about 4pm on July 31, 2023, when she was requested whether or not she had used wild mushrooms within the beef Wellington.
The prosecutor mentioned Muldoon’s proof was that Patterson denied utilizing both foraged mushrooms or wild mushrooms.
Erin Patterson, her in-laws, Don and Gail Patterson (backside proper), and Gail’s sister, Heather Wilkinson (prime proper).Credit score: Matthew Absalom-Wong
“I did say that. I didn’t suppose it was a lie on the time, although,” Patterson mentioned.
Requested by Rogers whether or not she had picked wild mushrooms on or after April 28, 2023, Patterson mentioned she had executed so.
“From my very own property at Gibson Road, from the botanic gardens at Korumburra, and from the rail path popping out of Leongatha. They may not all be after the twenty eighth of April, I’m undecided,” she mentioned.
Rogers then refers Patterson to proof by Division of Well being official Professor Rhonda Stuart, who described chatting with the mom of two in regards to the supply of the dried mushrooms she had used within the beef Wellington.
Within the proof, Stuart mentioned she had requested Patterson if she had been mushrooming and whether or not she had used some other mushrooms, however Patterson had responded that she had solely used the 2 varieties of mushrooms that she had described.
Rogers: You settle for that Professor Stuart requested you should you had been mushrooming?
Patterson: I settle for that’s what she mentioned.
Rogers: Did you in reality say “no” to Professor Stuart?
Patterson: To which query?
Patterson: Should you’d been mushrooming.
Patterson: I don’t do not forget that dialog.
Rogers: What I’m suggesting is that if you have been requested the query by Professor Stuart, had you been mushrooming, you mentioned “no”.
Patterson: I don’t do not forget that dialog.
Roger: I recommend you answered that query by saying “no”.
Patterson: I might need, I don’t keep in mind the dialog.
Rogers: I recommend that was a lie, that you simply instructed Professor Stuart that you simply had not been mushrooming.
Patterson: What I keep in mind of all of the questions being requested of me by numerous folks within the hospital was within the context of the meal. Nobody was inquisitive about what I used to be doing months in the past.
Rogers: So your proof earlier than this jury is that you simply understood Professor Stuart to be asking you questions solely in regards to the beef Wellington.
Patterson: I imagine that’s what I understood on the time.
The court docket then adjourns for lunch.
